One Year Of Ugly
CAROLINE MACKENZIE (THE BOROUGH PRESS, £12.99)
It’s 2016 in Trinidad, and 20-something writer Yola and her family have been living illegally, yet very happily, for several years after fleeing Venezuela. But when Aunt Celia dies suddenly, local crime lord Ugly informs the larger-thanlife Palacios family they have to pay off her significant debt by working for his crime ring for the foreseeable. To make her new life as a criminal even more challenging, Yola’s also going through the lusty trials and tribulations of a woman falling in love with someone wholly unsuitable. A completely addictive read that is laugh-out-loud funny. We didn’t want to put it down. ★★★★★